the last time i poured pappy 20 was when the patriots lost the super bowl
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
Really nice whiskey. Being Scottish this is one hellova find! Now one of my favourites. My wife bought this for me on a trip to Dublin - all because I like breasts and the colour red! Little did she know she found an Irish gem of a whiskey!!!
- Neil, 29th April
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 04:40 (eleven years ago) link
乒乓, really? I'm the only person I know who's been saying much about it locally, and mostly tried it because it was on sale.
I guess I am independently emulating the hipster lifestyle
― d-_-b (mh), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
jim beam black seems to be p popular among hipster atm
― 乒乓, Tuesday, November 6, 2012 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this feels v. sensible to me--somewhat forgotten and fairly priced. it's decent stuff for sure.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
still so sad I didn't buy them all when it was on sale for $16
― d-_-b (mh), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
Is there any bourbon at that $25 or so price point that is not decent? Seems like, in the midst of this golden age, that you have to go really cheap to go really wrong.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think there's a product from one of the big kentucky distilleries that's bad at that price point, no.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
What's Devil's Cut at, still closer to $30? I like that, but some have mixed opinions
― d-_-b (mh), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
not sure if it's quite that much around here. that's prob too much for it but i do like it.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
hey CAD, did you know that Koreana in Cambridge sells ENORMOUS pours of Gentleman Jack for $8?
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
(I just discovered this on Friday)
i did not know that! driven past koreana a million times--is the food good?
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
The food is VERY good! They do full-on Korean BBQ there and have a menu where they will grill all kinds of awesome foods at your table. We were all over the beef and pork bulgogi, plus a surprisingly good tofu dish.
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
that sounds really good.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
be prepared to wait if you don't have a reservation tho; we waited 45 min for a table for 4 (tho fortunately J and I got their early and got us on the list) and their bar is tiny
still, $8 Gentleman Jack!
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
Did you know that Gentleman Jack was allegedly originally designed for women?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
Makers Mark had some sort of thing five or six years ago where you could sign up for their promo stuff and they'd put your name on a barrel of whiskey and let you know how it progressed.
I got a poster in the mail this week with a date range stamped on it, next year, of when I can come buy the whiskey
― d-_-b (mh), Thursday, 8 November 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
these guys really play the long game with marketing
seem to be a lot of discount whisky offers around at the moment, asda were selling lagavulin for £28 but seems that's over, they're still selling aberlour for £18 which must be some sort of record for a 10yr single malt these days
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 8 November 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
Glenmorangie 10 yr old is £20 in Sainsburys. Coming up to Christmas you get lots of ridic bargains.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Thursday, 8 November 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
idk if these are 'bargains' in the strictest sense given how inflated whisky prices have become lately, though i think the lagavulin qualifies
got a bottle of laphroaig quarter cask, which is very much like the 10 yr? idk i suspect if you compare them directly the difference is more than just the abv but from memory, there's not a huge difference
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 8 November 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
must make a shoppin trip to the north soon actually
paid €9 for a pour of glenfiddich 12 last friday night, mannn fuck dublin
― threat of the author (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 November 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
pouring one out for u rite now ;_;
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 8 November 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
is there two tears there? cos that's more than i got in that glass
― threat of the author (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 November 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
big wide bastard glass too, not even all the surface got wet iirc
that is a good thing cuz otherwise the viscosity would mean it would cling in an unpourable patina around the entire surface area and u would get nary a crying eagle's worth
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 8 November 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
wait wait wait i know this one, it was miss kelly in 1993 and the term was.... meniscus or some shit
― threat of the author (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 November 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
i got a bottle of knob creek's 100 proof rye earlier today. lacking in depth but has the barnfloor + spice + dusty yeasty sweetness, the reason i drink rye. i've never tried an american rye that i loved. is it the fact that they're usually bottled before a long time in barrel? and how does this compare to the dickel?
― dylannn, Friday, 9 November 2012 06:29 (eleven years ago) link
had wild turkey rye at a bar last night - maybe it was cause I was drinking rittenhouse before i went out (and the wild turkey is a lower proof?) but the wild turkey tasted kinda thin in comparison
― 乒乓, Friday, 9 November 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i have not heard good stuff about the 81 proof rye
― call all destroyer, Friday, 9 November 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it was just kinda simple and one dimensional
― 乒乓, Friday, 9 November 2012 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
it is kind of thin, also seemed to somehow have a mint-tasting finish? I thought it was ok, but 81 proof so ehhhh
― d-_-b (mh), Friday, 9 November 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
went to two more stores yesterday I have determined that the price of dickel is swollen all over NYC; good luck getting it under $25 for a fifth
otoh I got a liter of old overholt for $18 wth
― 乒乓, Saturday, 10 November 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
Swollen dickel?
― d-_-b (mh), Saturday, 10 November 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
the price of dickel is def p engorged here
― 乒乓, Sunday, 11 November 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
I'm back in Idaho and it has state liquor stores. Dickel is a good price... but they only have one variety (can't remember what one). The shitty selection is going to lead me to ordering liquor online...
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Sunday, 11 November 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
my favorite place to browse online (and then go purchase boozes 'cause they're all over Chicago) is http://www.binnys.com/
― dansplaining (dan m), Sunday, 11 November 2012 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
had a pour of the Colonel E.H. Taylor single barrel bourbon tonight and really enjoyed it - 100 proof, opens up w/ a little water, spicy kick in the middle with a sweet butter finish
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Sunday, 11 November 2012 04:37 (eleven years ago) link
picked up a bottle of no-name 18-year speyside single malt from trader joe's for $25.99. i was a little unsure about it, but that's a great price for 18-year scotch, and i was curious. the verdict... not bad, and as good as any other scotch you'd get in that price range. pretty simple, easy drinking and smooth, though not much of a finish. thinking of other bottles in this range (macallan 10, glenfiddich 12, jw black), this is definitely better, although it's a miss if you like more full-bodied or smoky stuff.
― eh mec, elle est ou ma caisse? (ytth), Monday, 12 November 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
TJ Scotch (man, I wish our TJ sold spirits) is bottled by Alexander Murray, fwiw: http://alexandermurray.com/. Same people handle Kirkland brand for Costco. I do know their no-brand liquor has a god reputation across the board. Tequila, vodka ...
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 November 2012 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
correction: bulleit bourbon nearly$25 at Costco now
― d-_-b (mh), Monday, 12 November 2012 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdfz64dPd41qz6f9yo1_1280.gif
yeah yeah yeah yeah
― 乒乓, Sunday, 18 November 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
the online service of waitrose have discounted a lot of whisky so if you use their first-time signup offer of £20 off £100 you can get like four bottles of laphroaig 1/4 cask delivered for fractionally over £20 each
http://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/groceries/offer_aff.html
― Swole Miss (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 19 November 2012 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
bulleit bourbon went up to $20.99 at Trader Joe's
― a series of top-selling Maryanne Amacher BluRays (sarahell), Monday, 19 November 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
awesome insight from toothpaste for dinner.com
― buzza, Monday, 19 November 2012 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
no one who is truly into booze should front on the martini, its true
― call all destroyer, Monday, 19 November 2012 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
sarahell otm about price change, but it's like $24 here now (maybe I already posted that?)
― under minnesota shakedown (mh), Monday, 19 November 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
oh sorry, I meant at costco, here. no TJ liquor section locally
― under minnesota shakedown (mh), Monday, 19 November 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
so i got a bottle of buffalo trace discounted, it's now bottled at 40% abv here and some people seem to be unhappy about this (also 700ml as standard rather than 750ml in america i'd imagine?)
could benefit from the extra alcohol but it's very nice and makes a change from laphy taphy
― Swole Miss (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, 40% is pretty low.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link